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David Willetts has set out a three-point “to do” list for the coming months, making it a priority to convince academics in the arts and humanities “how much we love them”.
The University of Abertay Dundee has reconfirmed the controversial retirement of its suspended principal Bernard King, and said that all legal claims between the two parties have been withdrawn.
A vote by the University of Cambridge’s governing “parliament” over whether to back a motion of no confidence in universities minister David Willetts has ended in a dead heat.
The government is making “optimistic” assumptions about the effect of its student visa policy and must do more to base its plans on evidence, a group of MPs has warned.
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Two Welsh universities are to launch a £2 million venture capital fund to invest in local businesses and commercialise research.